Community Land Management Regulation 2021

For the Act, section 235(7), if the association’s seal is affixed electronically in the presence of a managing agent under section 17A, the managing agent must attest to the fact and date of the affixing of the seal—

by the managing agent’s signature, or

if the managing agent is a corporation—by the signature of—

the president, chairperson or other principal officer of the corporation, or

a staff member of the corporation who is authorised by the president, chairperson or other principal officer to attest to the fact and date of the affixing of the seal.

The requirement for a signature under subsection (1) is taken to have been met in relation to an electronic communication if—

a method is used to identify the person and to indicate the person’s intention in respect of the information communicated, and

the method used was either—

as reliable as appropriate for the purpose for which the electronic communication was generated or communicated, in the light of all the circumstances, including any relevant agreement, or

proven in fact to have fulfilled the functions described in paragraph (a), by itself or together with further evidence, and

the person to whom the signature is required to be given consents to that requirement being met by way of the use of the method mentioned in paragraph (a).

In this section—

a communication of information in the form of data, text or images by means of guided or unguided electromagnetic energy, or both, or

a communication of information in the form of sound by means of guided or unguided electromagnetic energy, or both, where the sound is processed at its destination by an automated voice recognition system.